Alan Yentob, the respected BBC broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and arts champion, has passed away aged 78. Over a career ...

The artist Anish Kapoor tells The Art Newspaper: “Alan Yentob was warm ... Alan Yentob, born London 11 March 1947; married 2020 Philippa Walker (one daughter, one son); died 24 May 2025.

He interviewed a raft of important cultural and creative figures over a lengthy career at the BBC.

Tributes have rolled in following the death of BBC arts broadcaster and documentary-maker Alan Yentob, who has died aged 78.

Alan Yentob, the long-serving BBC arts broadcaster ... Paying tribute to her late husband, Philippa Walker described Yentob as "curious, funny, annoying, late and creative in every cell of his ...

Alan Yentob - the former controller of BBC One - has passed away at the age of 78. Alan Yentob has died aged 78. The former ...

While the theme of motherhood has been explored in art for centuries, it is often by men, rendering scenes they only know ...

Alan Yentob, a former BBC arts broadcaster and documentarian, died Saturday at age 78. News of Yentob’s death was confirmed by the BBC and Yentob’s family. Yentob’s wife Philippa Walker said ...

The show includes work made during Walker’s 2021 artist’s residency at a London hospital maternity ward (“Birth Reflections”) and depicting her young daughter’s nursery (“Nurture”).